Fencing tool



May 11 1926,

Filed April 21, 1925 1,583,885 1.. KENIDALL FENCING TOOL Patented May 11, 1926. I

mssnn L. KENDALL, or COUNCIL, ARKANSAS.

FENCING root.

Application filed April 21, 1925. Serial No. 24,791.

This invention relates to a tool designed primarily for tightening slack wires of fences, one of the objects of the invention being to provide a simple and eflicient tool 6 which can be manipulated readily for placing twisted loops in the strands of a wire fence so as to take up slack, the tool being also useful for other purposes, such as re moving staples.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings, I Figure l is as side elevation of the tool. Figure 2 is an elevation of one end thereof. Figure 3 is a view showing the tool in use during the first stage of tightening a fence wire the loop in the tool being shown in section and one position of the tool being indicated by broken lines.

Figure 4 is a view showing the position of the tool relative to the kinked wire prior to the final step in the formation of a twisted loo 1 Figure 5 is a view showing the tool in position during the formation of a twisted loop.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a bar having one end pointed, as shown at 2 while the other end is offset at 3 to form a head. This head is forked to provide a claw 4: as shown particularly in Figure 2. At a point between its ends, preferably near the end 2, the bar is offset laterally to provide a V-shaped yoke 5.

In using the tool the yoke 5 is placed astride a slackwire W, The bar is, then swung through a portion of a circle so as to produce a double kink in th'ewire as indicated at K in Figures 3 and 4. The tool is then swung back toward its normal position so that the yoke 5 can be withdrawn from the kinked portion of the wire.

Thus the wire will be left as illustrated in Figure 4 and thereafter thcpointed end- 2 of the bar can be inserted through one loop of the kink as shown in said figure.

The tool is then swung so as to twist the engaged portion of I the kink and form a twisted loop as shown at L in Figure 5. Obviously this operation will quickly takevup slack in a wire and hold the wire taut.

As many loops asdesired can be formed along the wire in orderto take up all of the slack therein. This operation can be followed in connection with ordinary barbed wire, plain wire, or wire fabric.

The clawt can be utilized as a means for extracting staples and the pointed end 2 can also be used for the same purpose.

What is claimed is:

A wire stretching tool formed in a single piece and including an elongated bar having a pointed end, said bar having a laterally V-shaped wire straddling yoke extending laterally therefrom and integral with the bar, the sides of the yoke constituting loop forming means, those portions of the bar at opposite sides of the yoke being in aline- I ment.

ture.

In testimony that claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signa- JESSEE L. KENDALL, 

